‘Bought-and-Paid-For’: Jay-Z Accuser’s Ex-Lawyers Respond to Her Recanting Allegations

Lawyers for Tony Buzbee say his former client is an “unreliable” witness and suggest the woman was paid to repudiate her allegation against the star. Jay-Z attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating “Costume Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Trending on Billboard Lawyers who filed a shocking rape lawsuit against Jay-Z have responded after their ex-client fully recanted her allegations, claiming her U-turn testimony was “bought-and-paid-for.” The rebuttal from attorney Tony Buzbee came hours after his unnamed former client admitted in a sworn statement Friday (Sept. 25) that her stunning 2024 claim — accusing Jay-Z (Shawn Carter) of raping her as a 13-year-old girl in 2000 — was “false” and that she’d “never met or spoken” to the star. Related In their response, filed in court later on Friday and obtained by Billboard, lawyers for Buzbee say that the Jane Doe accuser’s sudden reversal is not only “irrelevant and inflammatory” but also “bought-and-paid-for” — a claim they did not offer any evidence to support. “Carter and his attorneys are now advancing testimony that they either know is probably false and perjurious, or, at best, know is offered by
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